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VIDEO: Top Gear takes a Reliant Robin to the heavens… and back

Posted by: st3ch on: January 1, 1970

Filed under: Euro, Videos

If you missed the most recent episode of Top Gear (download it here via bittorrent), we feel obliged to bring you this clip of what was by far the show’s highlight. As if the Clarkson, Mays and Hammond haven’t learned already that disaster lurks around every corner, they thought it would be a smashing idea to build a space shuttle out of a Reliant Robin. The goal would be to send the craft up into the heavens and have it guide back down to earth safely via remote control. That’s right, they did learn one lesson from Richard Hammond’s near death experience and decided to hide the humans safely within bunkers.
The contraption certainly looks the part, but we expected the thing to blow up Mythbusters style when the launch sequence reached 00:00:00. We’ll let you watch for yourselves what happens and how the story concludes in [...]

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